What About a Reductionist Approach? Comments on Terry Horgan

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serval:BIB_340AEACB311F
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
What About a Reductionist Approach? Comments on Terry Horgan
Périodique
Erkenntnis
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Sachse Christian
ISSN
0165-0106
1572-8420
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2007
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
67
Numéro
2
Pages
201-205
Langue
anglais
Résumé
In his work, Horgan argues for the compatibilism of agency, mental state-causation, and physical causal-closure. We generally assume a causally closed physical world that seems to exclude agency in the sense of mental state-causation in addition to physical causation. However, Horgan argues for an account of agency that satisfies the experience of our own as acting persons and that is compatible with physical causal-closure. Mental properties are causal properties but not identical with physical properties because there are different ontological levels. In this commentary, I shall reconsider the essential issues of this compatibilism (1), focus on a problem for Horgan’s conception of agent causation that arises from the causal argument for ontological reductionism (2), and propose to embed Horgan’s conception of agency within a reductionist approach in order to vindicate the indispensable character of agency (3).
Mots-clé
Mental Property, Special Science, Multiple Realization, Scientific Quality, Agentive Experience
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
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